| 单词 | runic calendar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunic calendar runic calendar n. now historical an almanac or perpetual calendar usually made from wood carved with runes or other symbols. ΚΠ 1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. xxxiv. 156 The ancient Runicke-Calendar doth not only acknowledge the 25 of December to be the day of our Saviours Nativity, but for that reason too makes this day the begining of the yeare. 1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2058 He..has shewn..that Atlas was one of the first Inventers of the Runick Calendars. 1811 J. E. Smith tr. C. Linnaeus Lachesis Lapponica II. 102 The Laplanders use no almanack, but in its stead only a kind of instrument like the ancient runic calendar of the Goths, composed of seven small splinters or boards. 1900 A. Del Mar Middle Ages Revisited viii. 163 (note) Dr Samuel Pegge..published the facsimile of a Gothic runic calendar cut upon a yardstick. 1999 L. Koerner in W. Clark et al. Sci. in Enlightened Europe 417 He dangled from his belt a Sami runic calendar, a shaman's drum..and pouches made of reindeer fur. < as lemmas |
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